The amount of documents directly published by end users is increasing along with the growth of Web 2.0. Such documents often contain spoken-style expressions, which are difficult...
This report describes the English-Chinese crosslanguage retrieval experiments at Berkeley for TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. We present a simple and effective ...
We extend the notion of star unfolding to be based on a quasigeodesic loop Q rather than on a point. This gives a new general method to unfold the surface of any convex polyhedron ...
A family of copulas, called semilinear, is constructed starting with some assumptions about the linearity of the copulas along some segments of the unit square. This family contai...
-- Here the method proposed in [13] for constructing minimal-length checking sequences based on distinguishing sequences is improved. The improvement is based on optimizations of t...